When we last left our heroes, we had narrowed down the application and the goal of our quest to quickly design a power supply using free online design tools. We had also set the stage for this series of blogs where we take a look into the various offerings of power supply design software tools.

A typical precision operational amplifier (op amp) may have a 1 MHz gain bandwidth product. Theoretically, you might expect RF signals that are in gigahertz to be attenuated to very small levels because they are far outside the amplifiers bandwidth.

There are 150 engineering schools in the state of Kerala with graduates leaving India for the allure of companies elsewhere in the world. The state of Kerala wants to keep these engineers right there in this region where they have graduated and is trying to create a “Silicon Valley” in India.

For decades, electronics product innovation has been incremental in nature, relying largely on the next generation of semiconductors to deliver performance improvement. For almost 50 years Moore’s Law has delivered 2x performance (power or cost) improvement in semiconductors every 18 months, outpacing any product or system level innovation cycle that could be achieved by even the most ambitious hardware teams. What has evolved is a “sit & wait” approach, to product innovation. However it is now clear that Moore’s law is broken, and the implications are profound for hardware designers.